Boca Grande vs Florida Pocket Maps
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Boca Grande
Discover Gasparilla Island's beaches, restaurants, and activities. Find information on fishing, wedding planning, and vacation rentals to experience the island's unique Old Florida charm.
- Beach information
- Restaurant listings
- Tarpon fishing details
- Destination wedding planning
- Vacation rental options
- Island lifestyle guide
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Welcome to the Boca Grande app, your guide to Gasparilla Island, a hidden gem on the Gulf Coast of Florida. Want to know about our best beaches and restaurants? Need information on tarpon fishing, planning a destination wedding, or your beachfront vacation rental options? The island abounds with refined elegance that exemplifies the casual lifestyle of Old Florida. Whether your style is sophisticated, preppy or laid back, find what you are looking for with the touch of a button. The app opens the door to one of the most enchanting and beautiful islands. Brought to you by the Boca Beacon.
Florida Pocket Maps
Plan your outdoor adventures with offline maps and guides for over 100 Florida parks. Access detailed information, download map sections, and utilize GPS features for hiking and navigation.
- Offline maps and guides
- 100+ parks, monuments, forests
- 300+ campgrounds
- 2,000+ trails
- GPS and GPX support
- Weather forecasts
- Push notifications
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Be prepared! Plan your next trip to one of the great Florida parks. Download maps and guides before you venture into the Wi-Fi free wilderness. Discover - 100+ national parks, state parks, monuments, forests - 25+ neatly folded maps by the National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, United States Forest Services, and other agencies. - 300+ campgrounds and campsites - 2,000+ trails and trailheads - 75,000+ points of interests Plan - Download maps, park brochures, and newspapers. These downloads are ready when you are offline and off the grid in the great outdoors. - Download arbitrary map sections as offline packs. - Photo galleries, panorama views. - Share links to parks and maps with friends Have fun - GPS and GPX support: record your hikes, import GPX routes, tracks and waypoints for your hiking trails. - Detailed national park information: alerts, news, visitor centers, campgrounds, driving directions, weather. - Open your favorite maps app to get a route to the selected park. - Current weather conditions, easy access to multi-day forecasts, sunrise and sunset times. - Push notifications for park alerts, park news, weather warnings So download maps and guides for: Big Cypress Big Talbot Island Bill Baggs Cape Biscayne Canaveral Collier-Seminole De Soto Dry Tortugas Everglades Fakahatchee Florida Panther Fort Caroline John Pennekamp Coral Reef Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Merrit Island Ocala San Felasco Hammock Timucuan Virgin Islands There are additional useful information and brochures for: Anastasia, Archie Carr, Bahia Honda, Big Lagoon, Big Shoals, Buck Island Reef, Bulow Creek, Caladesi Island, Castillo de San Marcos, Cayo Costa, Christiansted, Crystal River, De Leon Springs, Falling Waters, Florida Caverns, Fort Matanzas, Gulf Islands, Gullah/Geechee, Grayton Beach, Great White Heron, Hillsborough River, Honeymoon Island, Ichetucknee Springs, John D. MacArthur Beach, Kissimmee Prairie, Lovers Key, Lower Suwannee, Myakka River, Rainbow Springs, Salt River Bay, San Juan, Sebastian Inlet, Timucuan, Virgin Island Coral Reef, Weeki Wachee Springs and many more exiting parks. LEGAL Terms of Use: https://www.icoat.de/pocketmaps/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.icoat.de/pocketmaps/privacy
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Verdict
Boca Grande and Florida Pocket Maps both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Boca Grande's written reviews are positive against 50% of Florida Pocket Maps's. Boca Grande also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ads (none vs shown). Florida Pocket Maps's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (136 vs 24). On price, rating and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Florida Pocket Maps sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 2 months. Boca Grande asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Boca Grande against 4.6 for Florida Pocket Maps. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Florida Pocket Maps has 136 ratings behind it against 24, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Boca Grande's written reviews are positive against 50% of Florida Pocket Maps's.
Boca Grande ships an update every 4 months, Florida Pocket Maps every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Boca Grande | Florida Pocket Maps |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (24 ratings) | 4.6 (136 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 24 | 136 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.2 — better | 18 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 126 MB | 109 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hopkins & Daughter, Inc. | Alex Gugel |
Customer experience
Boca Grande
Florida Pocket Maps
In-app purchases
Boca Grande
No in-app purchases
Florida Pocket Maps
- access all pro features$3.992 Months
- access all pro features3 Days trial$5.493 Months
- access all pro features$12.991 Year
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